In this study, four well-exposed outcrops of the Asmari Fm in the southeastern part of the Izeh Zone of the Zagros Mountains were measured and sampled. In this region, the Asmari Fm is Oligocene to Early Miocene in age as determined by large benthic foraminifera. Based on depositional geometries, biogenic contents and lateral and vertical variations of facies, three depositional models are prop...

Jaws and dentition closely resembling those of the extant tuatara (Sphenodon) are described from the Manuherikia Group (Early Miocene; 19-16 million years ago, Mya) of Central Otago, New Zealand. This material is significant in bridging a gap of nearly 70 million years in the rhynchocephalian fossil record between the Late Pleistocene of New Zealand and the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. It prov...

First low-temperature thermochronology data across the central Patagonia and thermal modeling provide information on history of intraplate San Bernardo fold thrust belt (44–46 °S). Apatite (U–Th-Sm)/He (AHe), fission tracks (AFT) ages inverse indicate that sedimentary rocks presently at surface southwestern FTB have experienced a broadly similar history: i) cooling deposition time during Cretac...

The E-W oriented Sivas foreland basin in Turkey recorded a salinity crisis during the Late Eocene resulting evaporite accumulations thick enough to trigger intense halokinesis Oligo-Miocene. is studied thanks three sedimentological sections crossing transition from last marine deposits (Bözbel Formation) overlying evaporitic facies (Tuzhisar preserved halokinetic deformations. top of Bözbel For...

This research focusses on the biostratigraphy and paleoecological implications of the carbonatesof the Asmari Formation. The Asmari Formation is located in the Siah Kuhanticline of Izeh, Zagros Basin, SW Iran. It is of Late Oligocene (Chattian) - Early Miocene (Burdigalian) age. In this stratigraphic section, the Asmari Formation overlies the Pabdeh Formation and underlies the Gachsaran Formati...